This product includes an analysis of Abraham Lincoln's The Gettysburg Address. The speech is analyzed with the SOAPSTone reading strategy. This can be used with or without a Civil War unit. Great for English/Language Arts or Social Studies.

The SOAPStone Strategy can be used to teach students how to read and understand narrative and expository texts. Students use sticky notes to identify SOAPStone- Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, and Subject.
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This is a Smart Board file, with pictures, that explains SOAPSTone- the AP strategy and what it is used for. This file was used to teach 6- 8th graders how to use the strategy. It is only the explanations of what SOAPSTone is.

This resource is my version of the good old AP Language stand-by SOAPStone. However, it is such a good strategy for analyzing non-fiction, that I actually created and used this resource when I taught LA10 (tenth grade).
I made this chart because I noticed that even my AP students sometimes missed

Great for analyzing poetry, speeches, essays and other short pieces of writing. The SOAPSTone chart will have students analyze a piece of writing, looking at the following areas: Subject, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Speaker, and Tone. This helps students to read more in-depth into the piece of writ

Students love movies and videos. This "print and teach" SOAPStone Reading and Rhetorical Precis Writing resource includes 13 speeches (with video links) for rhetorical analysis. 27 PPT slides will help guide students to an understanding of bloom's taxonomy, annotating a text, evaluating the rhetor

An effective annotation method that will help students to analyze the text critically, the SOAPSToneR annotation strategy is a proven acronym that focuses on the major reading skills that are widely tested and expected to be discussed in literary analyses: subject, occasion, audience, point of view

This easy one-page note sheet uses the typical AP Language SOAPStone reading strategy to analyze satire. When I taught AP Language, satire was always the last unit before the exam, so by that time in the year, my students were experienced in using the SOAPStone strategy for regular non-fiction piece

Use Martin Luther King Jr.’s impassioned “Letter from Birmingham Jail” (a CCSS exemplar text) to practice close reading and other key Common Core skills, including analyzing a seminal U.S. text and evaluating rhetorical strategies.
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This bundle includes customized rhetoric worksheets and answer keys for 13 different cinematic movie speeches. Most of the time, rhetoric units can become boring and irrelevant for students, who beg to have real-world application for certain literary skills. With this bundle, your students will unde

Use Martin Luther King Jr.’s impassioned “Letter from Birmingham Jail” (a CCSS exemplar text) to practice close reading and other key Common Core skills, including analyzing a seminal U.S. text and evaluating rhetorical strategies.
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SOAPSTone Text Analysis Strategy
SOAPSTone is an acronym for Subject, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Speaker, and Tone. It is the BEST way I have found to teach analytical skills to students. You can use this strategy with poetry, nonfiction, speeches, videos, commercials, and even fiction passages (

Using Arthur Miller’s essay, “Tragedy and the Common Man,” and his play, The Crucible, students will review significant rhetorical devices and appeals. They will close read and annotate the text, interact with supporting video clips such as an expose on modern witch-hunting in India, listen to an NP

COMMON CORE ALIGNED: This bundle includes 6 complete progressive lessons that explore some of the great rhetoric of MLK and Malcolm X. Each lesson touches all learning modalities through PPT lecture, engaging videos, music, individual and group activities, Socratic discussion, and oral presentation

SOAPSTone stands for: speaker, occasion, audience, purpose, subject, and tone. This graphic organizer helps students to think critically and recall information about what they've read. This is the perfect organizer to use after reading an informative text. It has tone words at the bottom and questio

Help students master the art of close reading with two analysis graphic organizers. In the first template, students use rhetorical analysis strategies to analyze texts through the PASTA device. Students are prompted to craft side-by-side summaries and rhetorical precis; they are also asked to provid

This SOAPSTone rhetorical analysis worksheet (graphic organizer) is Google Classroom Ready. No more messy formatting errors upon converting from .pdf or .docx to Google Docs; however, these file formats are also included in the download for your convenience.
SOAPSTone (Speaker, Occasion, Audience,

The Essential Skills Workbook provides nine passages with the text complexity and academic vocabulary required by the Common Core State Standards. Each passage includes five 15-20 minute activities: daily work that helps students turn Common Core Standards into actionable practice. The 35-page workb

This is a SOAPSTone worksheet template. I found that when my students were asked to use a the SOAPSTone strategy they had a difficult time remembering what to put in each category's designated box. I attempted to resolve this issue by putting the SOAPSTone in worksheet form with questions, comments,

Wondering how to address the CCSS Speaking/Listening & Reading ?
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Students will love using TED Talks from www.TED.com to meet these standards and improve their ability to read Non-Print Informational texts. This is a classroom-tested lesson that will leave